and without question in my mind, speaker emerita pelosi will go down in history as the greatest speaker of all-time! [applause] throughout her time, throughout her time, though in congress she has been a legendary legislator. a fabulous facilitator, and a no nonsense negotiator. we know that nancy pelosi is a woman of faith. a loving wife, a mother a five, a grandmother of nine. a defender of democracy. a voice for the voiceless, and a powerful champion for the children, the climate, charles cynthia, california, the caucus, the congress, and the constitution. thank you madam speaker for all that you have done! it is an honor to stand on your broad shoulders! [applause] as well, as well as the shoulders of the great steny ona, and the great jim climber. two consequential leaders in their own right. [applause] now, scripture says angulation s, let us now become weary and doing good. for at the proper time, we will reap the harvest if we do not give up. over the last two years
and it appears, though obviously it is not done yet. that kevin mccarthy may in fact have the votes. steve, can you give us a bit of a history lesson here. compare this to any other time in modern history. any other time in modern history there is none because,, the last time the speaker s vote went past one ballot was 1823, but, we will come right back to this, but just to put in some perspective, what the history of this is, you are looking at here, this is every speakers race in history, that s gone past one ballot. we put this together earlier, only 11 ballots, this is the 15th ballot, so right here in history is where the speakers race ranks, this is the fifth longest speakers race in the history of the country, and you can see the four that were longer than this were all pre civil war, this is going to finish well shy of a record of 133 minutes, if it does indeed finish here, 15 ballots will be the fifth longest in american history, and again we haven t seen this go p
35 congresspeople sworn in. c-span cameras on george santos. we can confirm george santos was actually sworn in as a member of congress, something that he put out in a press release on monday, which was not true. it s done. it s definitely you and i met each other in the halls a few hours ago when we re not sure if it was gonna happen tonight. now is he s doing he s not doing the rose package tonight so you might have to adjourn. the chair recognizes the gentleman from new york. it s my humble honor to be the first to address you from the floor of the people s house as mister speaker.
and he was going to continue to make. did i disagree? of course. who do i want to be speaker? hakeem jeffries. a man of tenacious this, integrity, and leadership. but that does not stop me from crossing the aisle. we re gonna have to do a lot of crossing the aisle. i m allowed to do a lot of fighting, because i m an have to fight for principles i believe in. and ali, you know me, i ve stood my ground on many things for the people of america, and the american values of democracy. but tonight, i wanted to know, and i thought it was important that we continue and not adjourn. and we need to go forward. why do you think kevin mccarthy did not have the votes the 14 time around? what changed? there are a lot of things that go into someone giving you their vote, i think you heard the opposition speak a lot about trust. a lot about relationships. all i can say to you is that in this place it is an intimate bowl of relationships. there were none there for some of these individuals, and ther
possibility. that something in the middle, voted against it. and i think that the bigger threats come when they actually need to do something proactive in the coming weeks and months. yeah, or even a weekly basis, ali, and matt gates, one of his oilier coats in the week. was that kevin mccarthy s gonna have to step aside, or he s gonna be a speaker in a straight jacket, and he very much is gonna be a speaker in a straight jacket, i think they have been on an extremely short leash, it is possible that they will have a little bit of runway here if the republicans don t actually have to pass anything. the debt ceiling, that s a problem for the summer.